{"id":93352,"date":"2019-05-12T00:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T00:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/05\/rumour_pokemon_sword_and_shield_might_be_compatible_with_pokemon_go"},"modified":"2019-05-12T00:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-12T00:45:00","slug":"rumour-pokemon-sword-shield-might-be-compatible-with-pokemon-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/05\/12\/rumour-pokemon-sword-shield-might-be-compatible-with-pokemon-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumour: Pok\u00e9mon Sword &amp; Shield Might Be Compatible With Pok\u00e9mon GO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/64504ee75e5d6\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/64504ee75e5d6\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Sword And Shield\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/64504ee75e5d6\/sword-and-shield.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/64504ee75e5d6\/sword-and-shield.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Sword And Shield\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/pokemon_go\"><strong>Pok\u00e9mon GO<\/strong><\/a> has been insanely successful for Niantic and The Pok\u00e9mon Company, so it makes perfect sense for Game Freak to make the popular mobile game compatible with its upcoming Switch release, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_sword_and_shield\">Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It now appears we could be finding out about potential compatibility between the two games sooner than planned, with Pok\u00e9mon GO dataminer <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chrales\">Chrales<\/a> discovering the latest update for the mobile app \u2013 Version 0.143.0 \u2013 features a string referred to as &#8220;koala_settings&#8221;, for a separate app.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">version 0.143.0 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fENDwLqVwd\">pic.twitter.com\/fENDwLqVwd<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Chrales (@Chrales) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Chrales\/status\/1126985036467720192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>According to the source, the codename &#8220;koala&#8221; <em>might<\/em> be Sword and Shield&#8217;s internal codename, which is said to match the naming convention Game Freak uses to link each game with nature or an animal. The previous release, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_lets_go_pikachu_and_lets_go_eevee\">Pok\u00e9mon Let&#8217;s Go, Pikachu! &amp; Let&#8217;s Go, Eevee!<\/a><\/strong> is codenamed &#8220;beluga&#8221; (a whale) and has its own dedicated settings screen inside GO to connect the two games.<\/p>\n<p>A Pok\u00e9mon fan page <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CentroPokemon\/status\/985206525454176256\">on Twitter<\/a> went into a bit more detail about previous codenames in the series:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">Nombres claves de juegos de Pok\u00e9mon si la filtraci\u00f3n de hoy es correcta:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; B2W2: Swan<br \/>&#8211; XY: Kujira<br \/>&#8211; ORAS: Sango<br \/>&#8211; SM: Niji<br \/>&#8211; USUM: Momiji<br \/>&#8211; Switch: Beluga<\/p>\n<p>Todos relacionados con la naturaleza.<\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 Centro Pok\u00e9mon \ud83d\udd75\ufe0f\u26a1 (@CentroPokemon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CentroPokemon\/status\/985206525454176256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 14, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Given the continued success of Niantic&#8217;s augmented reality mobile game, a connection with the upcoming Switch release seems quite feasible.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BdA22Lh6Rwk?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>Are you expecting Sword and Shield to be made compatible with GO? What are your thoughts about this datamine? Tell us down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pok\u00e9mon GO has been insanely successful for Niantic and The Pok\u00e9mon Company, so it makes perfect sense for Game Freak to make the popular mobile game compatible with its upcoming Switch release, Pok\u00e9mon Sword and Shield. It now appears we could be finding out about potential compatibility between the two games sooner than planned, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}